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Prosecutors charged former Fort Lauderdale Strikers owner Aaron Davidson and 13 other top FIFA executives Wednesday in a more than $150-million racketeering and fraud scheme the U.S. Department of Justice said had corrupted the world's most popular sport while pouring millions of dollars into the defendants' coffers.

Davidson, 44, president of Miami-based Traffic Sports USA, whose company previously owned the Strikers, was among the defendants named in a 47-count indictment unsealed in Brooklyn federal court Wednesday morning.

The charges, which coincided with raids in Miami and Zurich, Switzerland, followed a three-year FBI investigation into alleged crimes that U.S. Atty....

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